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August 25, 2023 6:47 AM
In
Okinawa, it is called country hand inakadee. It means the hand of a region
other than Shuri-Naha. For example, the Shuri karateka (Itosu lineage)
ridiculed the hand of Kiya Taketoshi as a country hand.
Takeshi
Kiya was originally born in Shuri Gihocho (then a village). Giho is located
north of Shuri, next to the west of Akabira Town, where the Motobu Palace was
located. At that time, Giho was a noble town lined with daimyō residences such
as Kunigami Palace, Gushito Palace, Sakuma Palace, Urasoe Hall, and Yonabaru
Palace.
Okinawa's samurai residence. Source: Naha City Museum of History
When
Takeshi Kiya was a teenager, he moved to Tokyo for nine years following his
father, Asafu, who served as the head of the Shoke Shoke (former Ryukyu royal
family). At that time, only Okinawans who could live in Tokyo were members of
the samurai family who worked at the Sho family's residence or a handful of
prefectural scholarship students.
In
other words, Takeshi Kiya was born and raised in one of the best
"urbanites" in Okinawa, and there was no one in Okinawa who could
call him a redneck.
I don't
know the exact time, but probably in his thirties, Takeshi Kiya moved to
Yomitan Village. His father, Asafu, was originally the eldest son of Honaga
Tomoyo and was adopted by the Kiya samurai family in order to succeed him.
Takeshi Kiya was adopted by the Honaga family to take over his father's family
home. Therefore, Takeshi Kiya's real name is Tomonori Honnaga.
After
returning from Tokyo, Takeshi Kiya, like other "samurai of the abandoned
domain," had no choice but to move to the countryside to make a living.
However, Takeshi Kiya's karate was learned from his father, Asafu, and
Matsumura Soto, and is not a country hand. However, later Shuri karate
practitioners misunderstood it and ridiculed it as a country hand.
Indeed,
Professor Takeshi Kiya's mold is different from the typical Itoshima type.
However, as mentioned in "Modification of Itosu Yasutsune", it is
because Itosu-sensei modified the Koryu type, and it can be said that Kiya
Takeshi's kata retains the taste of the old style.
Therefore,
just because it is different from the Shuri-te style after Itoshima, it is not
possible to define Takeshi Kiya's hand as a country hand. In the end, the
country hand was nothing more than a criticism that missed the mark by people
who did not know Takeshi Kiya's origins and upbringing.
By the
way, the Kiya samurai were called Kiya Budennai chandochi. Dunai and ぅんchi refer to the families of the senior warrior family, but there are
ranks among them. There are two families: the Sojigashira family, which ruled
Makiri (equivalent to today's municipalities), and the Wakijigashira family,
which controlled one of the villages of Makiri. The Kiya samurai family was a
total jigashira.
According
to Uehara Seikichi, Motobu Tomoyu used to call Takeshi Kiya "It's rude to
call him Changmeegu, so call him Kiya Takedonnai." He told me not to call
him by his nickname, but by his honorific name. It was the custom of the upper
class of Shuri to call each other by honorific titles in this way.
Source:
"Country Hand"
(Ameblo, May 21, 2017). Notes Added at the time of migration.
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